Dick Moores wrote: > When sending a reply to a post, to the list, should we also address > the reply to the author of the post to which we are replying? > (There's gotta be an easier way to say that..) If we do so, then the > author gets a duplicate of our reply. > > I've run some statistics (but no more bar graphs ;-) ). My Eudora > mailbox for Tutor contains 12,114 emails (I've deleted the duplicates > I've received). Of these, 9,424 are replies. Of these replies, 4,338 > (46%) were addressed ONLY to the list. So 54% WERE also sent to the > author being replied to. > > Is there a rule about this? Or should one be made? Or does it matter? > > Replying only to the list takes a bit of trouble. The default > behavior seems to be that the "Reply" button addresses the author > only and not the list; "Reply to all" addresses both the list, the > author, and any others included in the To: or Cc: headers of the post > being replied to. Or at least that's how Eudora and Gmail work. > > Ten years ago or so I managed a Majordomo list, and I recall that it > was possible for the list manager to configure the list to include a > "Reply-To" header. If this would be possible for the admins to do > with Tutor -- to include a "Reply-To: tutor@python.org" header in the > posts sent out by the list, it would enable us to address a reply > only to the list by hitting the "Reply" button. >
If you search those 12,114 emails you'll find a discussion of this from about 6 weeks ago. Consensus was split, so the list manager chose to leave the policy unchanged. > Dick Moores > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
